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In December of 2014 Cracker released their tenth studio effort, entitled "Berkeley To Bakersfield," a double-album that finds this uniquely American band traversing two different sides of the California landscape – the northern Bay area and further down-state in Bakersfield.

Despite being less than a five-hour drive from city to city, musically, these two regions couldn't be further apart from one another. In the late '70s and '80s a harder-edged style of rock music emerged from the Bay area, while Bakersfield is renowned for its own iconic twangy country music popularized, most famously, by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in the '60s and '70s. Yet despite these differences, they are both elements that Cracker's two cofounders, David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, have embraced to some degree on nearly every one of their studio albums over the last two decades. On Berkeley To Bakersfield, however, instead of integrating these two genres together within one disc, they've neatly compartmentalized them onto their own respective regionally-titled LPs.

As Lowery explains, "On the Berkeley disc the band is the original Cracker lineup - Davey Faragher, Michael Urbano, Johnny and myself. This is the first time this lineup has recorded together in almost 20 years. We began recording this album at East Bay Recorders in Berkeley, CA. For this reason we chose to stylistically focus this disc on the music we most associate with the East Bay: Punk and Garage with some funky undertones. To further match our sense of place we often took an overtly political tone in the lyrics."

"This Bakersfield disc represents the 'California country' side of the band. Throughout the band's 24-year history we've dabbled in Country and Americana but this time we wanted to pay homage to the particular strain of Country and Country-Rock music that emerges from the inland valleys of California."

Cracker has been described as a lot of things over the years: alt-rock, Americana, insurgent-country, and have even had the terms punk and classic-rock thrown at them. But more than anything Cracker are survivors. Cofounders Lowery and Hickman have been at it for almost a quarter of a century – amassing ten studio albums, multiple gold records, thousands of live performances, hit songs that are still in current radio rotation around the globe ("Low," "Euro-Trash Girl," "Get Off This" and "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me" to name just a few), and a worldwide fan base - that despite the major sea-changes within the music industry - continues to grow each year.

JONATHAN TERRELL HAS ROOTS MUSIC IN HIS BLOOD. BORN INTO A LARGE FAMILY OF FORMER-CULT MEMBER MUSICIANS, HE ENTERED THIS WORLD IN THE BACK ROOM OF A TRAILER HIDDEN OUT AMONG THE DEEP PINES OF EAST TEXAS. IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS, PLAYING IN THE CHURCH BAND AND WORKING HORSES WAS ALL HE KNEW.
SINCE MOVING TO AUSTIN, TEXAS, TERRELL HAS BLOOMED INTO A WELL-RESPECTED SONGWRITER OF DEEPLY MOVING AND RESONANT COUNTRY-FOLK MUSIC EXPLORATIONS. ALTHOUGH HE'S GRACED THE STAGE WITH COUNTRY LEGENDS SUCH AS WILLIE NELSON AND MERLE HAGGARD, TERRELL NEVER FULLY RESTS ON TRADITIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC. “A GOOD SONG IS A GOOD SONG” SAYS JT. PULLING INSPIRATION FROM DREAMSCAPES AND IN DEPTH STORIES FROM THE GORGEOUS AND GRITTY CORNERS OF AMERICANA, TERRELL IS UNDOUBTEDLY A NEW BREED OF COUNTRY. TERRELL RECEIVED INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR HIS 2008 FULL LENGTH SOLO DEBUT TRIALS AND STIMULATIONS, AND THEN BEGAN WORK ON HIS NEXT RECORD UNTIL SHELVING THE PROJECT IN 2011 TO FRONT THE CHARISMATIC, EVER-TOURING ROCK'N'ROLL BAND NOT IN THE FACE.
TERRELL RELEASED HIS UNSHELVED AMERICANA GEM PAST THE LIGHTS OF TOWN ON CANDY BANG RECORDS FALL 2015 FOLLOWED BY RESIDENCIES IN NYC, DC AND PHILADELPHIA, A UK TOUR AND A SOLD OUT FRENCH TOUR. TERRELL RETURNED TO HIS SECOND ALBUM OF SONGS AND SHAPED THEM INTO AN ENCHANTING COLLECTION OF YEARNING AND BRAVADO, OF HEARTBREAK AND REDEMPTION.

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